Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's fighting was something of a setback for Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who counts last year's withdrawal from Lebanon as one of his proudest achievements. Since a total of 656 Israeli soldiers were killed in Lebanon between the invasion in June 1982 and the pullout in June 1985, Peres has often said that the withdrawal was saving 20 Israeli lives a week...
...trying to fix the problem by upgrading its computer system, but that effort suffered a setback last week. IRS officials canceled a contract for $73 million worth of new computers and software to be supplied by Virginia-based Computer Systems & Resources, after a Government review panel found that the equipment had serious deficiencies. For one thing, the system's mastery of COBOL, a computer language widely used in the Government, did not meet federal standards. The panel also concluded that the system would probably cost $101 million, instead of the $73 million estimated by the Virginia company...
...what cargoes will take priority? Until the shuttle's fatal flaw can be identified and corrected, those questions will remain unanswered. But a few things seem clear. One is that even the temporary grounding of the shuttles, decreed by NASA immediately after the Challenger disaster, is a stunning setback to the entire U.S. space program. It will at best delay, and at worst force cancellation of, a wide variety of missions that were to have been carried out by shuttle-riding astronauts: launchings of scientific space probes and commercial and military satellites, as well as testing of equipment designed...
...voiced his own sense of pain and humiliation over the incident. As Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres visited Washington, it also appeared that the Middle East peace initiative advanced by Jordan's King Hussein and Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, had been dealt yet another severe setback...
...Palestinian delegates, Anglican Bishop Elia Khoury of Amman and Mohammed Milhem, former mayor of the Israeli-occupied West Bank village of Halhul, suddenly balked. After consultation, the pair refused to sign a declaration that acknowledged Israel's right to exist. Howe called the cancellation a "disappointment and a setback," but added, "We must not allow it to be a fatal one." The problem for the P.L.O. was compounded on Tuesday when Jordan's King Hussein announced his support for the British decision to call | off the meeting. Said Hussein: "We'll have to see what went wrong...